The results from last Saturday's elections show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition won a strong victory over Shi'ite religious parties.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Seventy percent of Bahrain's population is Shi'ite, but Sunni Muslims lead the government.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

Prime Minister Maliki is Shi'ite.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Security forces killed two young Shi'ite protesters over the past week and a half, and opened fired at Shi'ites who sought to hold a protest march after attending the funeral of one of them.

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As supporters of Bahrain's Shi'ites have maintained since the unrest spread to the kingdom last year, Bahrain's Shi'ites are not Iranian proxies.

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